Getting labels of select field created by php

• locomo

• October 25, 2013 at 7:02 am

For some reason I’m having trouble getting at the labels of a select field I’ve created via PHP – the field is called “pay_description” and it is a sub field of a repeater field

and has a choices array:
‘choices’ => array (
‘deposit’ => ‘Deposit’,
‘payment1’ => ‘1st Payment’,
‘payment2’ => ‘2nd Payment’,
),

here’s the code i’m using

$field = get_field_object('pay_description');
$value = 'payment1';
$label = $field['choices'][ $value ];
echo $label;

nothing is echoed

i feel like i’m doing something silly ..

• Elliot

• October 28, 2013 at 4:23 pm

Hi @locomo

Always DEBUG your code when it doesn’t do what you want:

<?php 

echo '<pre>';
	print_r($field);
echo '</pre>';
die; ?>

• locomo

• October 29, 2013 at 2:37 am

ok thanks .. my issue was that I was trying to use “get_field_object” to access a sub field of a repeater

is it possible to directly access a sub field of a repeater with its key?

i was able to get to the field i needed without looping through all of the sub_fields like this but i’d rather use the api if there is a cleaner way:
$payment_object[‘sub_fields’][0]

• Elliot

• October 29, 2013 at 6:00 pm

Hi @locomo

There is a function called get_sub_field_object, however you need to use this within the has_sub_field loop

Currently, you cannot target a sub field directly by it’s key. This will be possible in v5 thanks to the new data structure!

Thanks
E